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The Daily Show’s John Oliver is set to star in the sci-fi comedy Absolutely Anything.

Directed by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame), Deadline says the plot is being kept under wraps, but the film’s producers say that the story involves “aliens, a goofy Brit, a talking dog and buckets of silliness.” Sounds perfect for Jones, who hasn’t stepped behind the camera for a feature film since 1996’s version of The Wind in the Willows. He’s been busy since then, though, working on shorts and producing/presenting historical documentaries on TV.

Robin Williams is in talks to play the role of Dennis the Dog while Jones has reached out to fellow Flying Circus members John Cleese, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, and Terry Gilliam to voice the aliens. Maybe they could hire Gilliam to create the creatures through animation and figure out a way to pay him exactly enough to get The Man who Killed Don Quixote back on track.

Production is scheduled for next spring.

Oliver is The Daily Show’s best correspondent and he can easily make the leap to feature films. Hopefully, Absolutely Anything will be a far better movie than his last cinematic outing, 2008′s The Love Guru.